During that time it passed through the Van Allen belt and gave RadPC the chance to earn its name. Radiation and computers don’t mix because a single high-energy particle can, according to NASA ...

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment -- these are just a few of the challenges space ...

Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission ...

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June 2024, returned to Earth after ...

The twin Van Allen Probes have spent more than six years orbiting through Earth's radiation belts. Orbit changes in early 2019 will ensure that the spacecraft eventually de-orbit and disintegrate ...

The May 2024 solar storm created two additional radiation belts, sandwiched between the two permanent Van Allen belts. One of them, shown in purple, contained a population of protons, giving it a ...

Van Allen Space Environments Medal. He currently is lead investigator on several NASA space missions including NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes ...

The other surprise was finding electrons this energetic in the inner radiation belt at all. Measurements from NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission prompted renewed interest in the inner radiation belt.

NASA's 45-day post-mission rehabilitation program is designed to help astronauts recover from the physical effects of ...

as it passes through through the Van Allen radiation belt, but Earth’s magnetic field still provides significant protection. The shielding is crucial, as NASA aims to limit astronauts ...